Ormocarpum sennoides - South Indian Caterpillar Bush

South Indian Caterpillar Bush

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Photo: Anurag Sharma

Common name: South Indian Caterpillar Bush • Malayalam: kattumurina, kattumurinna, punamurina • Sanskrit: काननशेखर kananashekhara, kananashigru • Tamil: Elumbotti, etukamurunkai, katmorungi, kattu murunkai • Telugu: adavimunaga, gunnangi, nalikashina

Botanical name: Ormocarpum sennoides Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Hedysarum sennoides, Ormocarpum cochinchinense

South Indian Caterpillar Bush is a straggling shrub, up to 3m tall. Yellow flowers are borne in leaf-axils in 3-5-flowered racemes. Flowering from December-January. Fruit is a pod, longitudinally striped, prickly, warted; seeds oblong. Branchlets and pods are warty. Leaves are alternate-spiral, imparipinnate. South Indian Caterpillar Bush is found in peninsular India and Sri Lanka.

Identification credit: Vijayasankar Raman

Photographed in Chimmony WLS, Kerala.

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